Lord Davies of Oldham: Under Council Regulation EC No. 3911/92, export of antiquities from the UK to a country outside the customs territory of the EU requires an export licence. The UK Government are the competent authority to issue that licence if:
	(a) the antiquities in question were lawfully and definitively located within the territory of the UK on 1 January 1993; or(b) they had subsequently been imported to the UK following lawful and definitive dispatch from another member state, importation from a third country or importation from a third country after lawful dispatch from a member state to that country.
	If none of these circumstances applies, the regulation would preclude the issue of an export licence by the UK Government, because it would not be the competent authority within the meaning of the regulation. This position would not be affected by the subsequent accession of Hungary to the EU in 2004.